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According to the sheriff his treatment of Hilton is more the norm.
According to a criminal defense attorney I know, for non violent misdemeanors, it is rare to spend more than a few days actually in jail regardless of actual sentence since the jails are crowded.
I have no direct knowledge either, but most of the people I know who do know stuff about this feel that even 25 days actually in jail for her offense would be extremely unusual, let alone 45. And that a prohibition on shifting to house arrest is also very unusual since she has no history of violence or evasion.
But if their wrong and the typical peon on the street would do 25-40 days in a cell then yes, she deserves the same. But nothing I've seen indicates that is the case and making an example of someone is just as big an abuse of the system, in my view, as going easy on her.
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